recording midi drum machine style

[Daddijonez]

When I try to record a drum pattern I can only get like three parts recorded and after that it won't record anything else. I see the notes show up but no sound except for the previous three. and also how in the hell do you separate midi passes so you can bounce them down to audio on separate track for mixing. like mute the kick and bounce the hihats..etc. please help

[dillon99999]

1. set your tempo
2. record your midi track
3. now solo the midi track AND it's audio input and use "bounce" to create a WAVE file of the track
5. import that audio wave file back into the session - or put it into a sampler like halion or kontakt.

you won't EVER get glitches and dropped notes from a WAVE file.

if there are glitches in the wave file (it was caused by the instrument).

in that case you can just grab a part of the track where the kick is "good" and use that to replace the "bad" one.

i hope this makes sense - hard to explain.

[Daddijonez]

there has to be a better way than that! I'm saying I dont want to have to stop...just keep going and when I done just be able to bounce the tracks then. like in cubase! where everytime you pass region is created for what was recorded instead of everthing being all together. but still able to hear what I just played. pro tools has to be able to do this or I wasted my money!!!

[dillon99999]

the problem isn't really pro tools.
the problem is the latency settings in your virtual instrument.
if it is set too low, then you will get playback dropouts and glitches.
if it is set too high, then you don't get good response times from your drums.
you will have to experiment with what settings for latency work best for your situation / computer.
if you do that right, you will achieve the right balance for latency vs. responsiveness - but you may still experience problems (no guarantees).
if you work on just an 8-bar pattern, then it doesn't take long for the "bounce" to occur.
just highlight 8-bars, and work like that.
another option is to use hardware synths (proteus 2000, tr-rack, jv2080, etc).
and finally, you could use DFH (Drums From Hell - superior & version 2 work as RTAS plugins) as a VST (or RTAS) plugin - and dedicate RAM to it, thus, your drums will be loaded into RAM - and you won't have issues with them.
you will need at least 2GB of RAM (preferably 4GB) to do it that way.